John-Diary Entry


Name: Rémi Gusteau
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baker
Social Class: Third Estate
Financial situation: Extremely poor, only able to survive
Appearance: A medium sized man, scruffy beard, muscular, fairly skinny
Location (**Map of France**, **Map of Paris** Must be in the Paris region.
Habitual locations: (where are you found most of the time?)
Neuilly sur Seine, Bakery, and the forest

Daily routine: (typical day for you)
  • Early in the morning at about 5 am, open the bakery and fire the oven to serve breakfast to the poor (the rich eat breakfast late)
  • For the entire day, make dough and loaves of bread.
  • At nightfall, Chop or collect wood to maintain the heat in the bakery for the next day

Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits:
- warmhearted even though the taxes are high
- wishes the days of famine are over
- independent since he lives under such harsh conditions

Past/individual-family history:
Family: (spouse? siblings?...)
Father (Clark Gusteau) - baker
Mother (Mary Gusteau)- peasant, waitress

Father is dead from a disease and mother stays at the house since she is not healthy enough to work.

Social relations with your own and other classes (people you deal with or know about in the class, AND your opinions and feelings about them):
Edgar Dubois - a peasant working in a nearby farmland
He was a frequent customer of my bakery in the past, but now as the taxes are rising, I hardly get to see Edgar’s face in town. I heard that he must work in the fields without rest.

Louis-Francois Cartler - an apprentice of a watch maker
He occasionally visits the bakery in the morning to eat a simple breakfast but most of the time he is busy studying watch making.

Religion: Christianity
Education: Learned the skills of being a baker from my father
Languages you speak: French
Main privileges and/or hardships:
Now it is hard to make a living because a lot of the customers that came in the past do not frequently come to the bakery. Since the taxes are so high, the former customers cannot afford to even buy a meal in the bakery.

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